of practice obtaining in like cases between private parties. A decree against the United States or such corporation may include costs of suit, and when the decree is for a money judgment, interest at the rate of 4 per centum per annum until satisfied, or at any higher rate which shall be stipulated in any contract upon which such decree shall be based. Interest shall run as ordered by the Court. Decrees shall be subject to appeal and revision as now provided in other cases of Admiralty and maritime juridiction. If the libellant so elects in his libel the suit may proceed in accordance with the principles of libels in rem wherever it shall appear that had the vessel or cargo been privately owned and possessed a libel in rem might have been maintained. Election so to proceed shall not preclude the libellant in any proper case from seeking relief in personam in the same suit. Neither the United States nor such corporation shall be required to give any bond or Admiralty stipulation on any proceeding brought hereunder. Any such bond or stipulation heretofore given in Admiralty causes by the United States, the United States Shipping Board, or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, shall become void and be surrendered and cancelled upon the filing of a suggestion by the AttorneyGeneral or other duly authorised law officer that the United States is interested in such cause, and assumes liability to satisfy any decree included within said bond or stipulation, and thereafter any such decree shall be paid as provided in Section 8 of this Act.

4. That if a privately-owned vessel not in the possession of the United States or of such corporation is arrested or attached upon any cause of action, arising or alleged to have arisen from previous possession, ownership, or operation of such vessel by the United States or by such corporation, such vessel shall be released without bond or stipulation therefor upon the suggestion by the United States, through its AttorneyGeneral or other duly authorised law officer, that it is interested in such cause, desires such release, and assumes the liability for the satisfaction of any decree obtained by the libellant in such cause, and thereafter such cause shall proceed against the United States in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

5. That suits as herein authorised may be brought only on causes of action arising since the 6th April, 1917, provided that suits based on causes of action arising prior to the taking effect of this Act shall be brought within one year after this Act goes into effect; and all other suits hereunder shall be brought within two years after the cause of action arises.

6. That the United States or such corporation shall be entitled to the benefits of all exemptions and of all limitations

of liability accorded by law to the owners, charterers, operators, or agents of vessels.

7. That if any vessel or cargo within the purview of Sections 1 and 4 of this Act is arrested, attached, or otherwise seized by process of any Court in any country other than the United States, or if any suit is brought therein against the master of any such vessel for any cause of action arising from, or in connection with, the possession, operation, or ownership of any such vessel, or the possession, carriage, or ownership of any such cargo, the Secretary of State of the United States, in his discretion, upon the request of the Attorney-General of the United States, or any other officer duly authorised by him, may direct the United States consul residing at or nearest the place at which such action may have been commenced to claim such vessel or cargo as immune from such arrest, attachment, or other seizure, and to execute an agreement, undertaking,, bond, or stipulation for and on behalf of the United States, or the United States Shipping Board, or such corporation/as by said Court required, for the release of such vessel or cargo, and for the prosecution of any appeal; or may, in the event of such suits against the master of any such vessel., direct said United States consul to enter the appearance of the United States, or of the United States Shipping Board,/or of such corporation, and to pledge the credit thereof to the payment of any judgment and cost that may be entered in such suit. The Attorney-General is hereby vested with power and authority to arrange with any bank, surety company, person, firm, or corporation in the United States, its territories and possessions, or in any foreign country, to execute any such aforesaid bond or stipulation as surety or stipulator thereon, and to pledge the credit of the United States to the indemnification of such surety or stipulator as may be required to secure the execution of such bond or stipulation. The presentation of a copy of the judgment roll in any such suit, certified by the clerk of the Court and authenticated by the certificate and seal of the United States consul claiming such vessel or cargo, or his successor, and by the certificate of the Secretary of State as to the official capacity of such consul, shall be sufficient evidence to the proper accounting officers of the United States, or of the United Scates Shipping Board, or of such corporation, for the allowance and payment of such judgments: Provided, however, chat nothing in this Section shall be held to prejudice or preclude a claim of the immunity of such vessel or cargo from foreign jurisdiction in a proper case.

8. That any final judgment rendered in any suit herein uthorised, and any final judgment within the purview of Sections 4 and 7 of this Act, and any arbitration award or

settlement had and agreed to under the provisions of Section 9 of this Act, shall, upon the presentation of a duly authenticated copy thereof be paid by the proper accounting officers of the United States out of any appropriation or insurance fund or other fund especially available therefor; otherwise there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to pay any such judgment or award or settlement.

9. That the Secretary of any Department of the Government of the United States, or the United States Shipping Board, or the board of trustees of such corporation, having control of the possession or operation of any merchant vessel are, and each hereby is, authorised to arbitrate, compromise, or settle any claim in which suit will lie under the provisions of Sections, 2, 4, 7, and 10 of this Act.

10. That the United States, and the crew of any merchant vessel owned or operated by the United States, or such corporation, shall have the right to collect and sue for salvage services rendered by such vessel and crew, and any moneys recovered therefrom by the United States for its own benefit, and not for the benefit of the crew, shall be covered into the United States Treasury to the credit of the Department of the Government of the United States, or of the United States Shipping Board, or of such corporation, having control of the possession or operation of such vessel.

11. That all moneys recovered in any suit brought by the United States on any cause of action arising from, or in connection with, the possession, operation, or ownership of any merchant vessel, or the possession, carriage, or ownership of any cargo, shall be covered into the United States Treasury to the credit of the Department of the Government of the United States, or of the United States Shipping Board, or of such aforesaid corporation, having control of the vessel or cargo with respect to which such cause of action arises, for re-imbursement of the appropriation, or insurance fund, or other funds, from which the loss, damage, or compensation for which said judgment was recovered has been or will be paid.

12. That the Attorney-General shall report to the Congress at each session thereof the suits under this Act in which final judgment shall have been rendered for or against the United States and such aforesaid corporation, and the Secretary of any Department of the Government of the United States. and the United States Shipping Board, and the board of trustees of any such aforesaid corporation, shall like vise report the arbitration awards or settlements of claims which shall have been agreed to since the previous session, and which the time to appeal shall have expired or have been waived.

13. That the provisions of all other Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved, March 9, 1920.

ACT of the Congress of the United States of America to deport certain Undesirable Aliens and to deny re-admis· sion to those deported.-Approved, May 10, 1920.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that aliens of the following classes, in addition to those for whose expulsion from the United States provision is made in the existing law, shall, upon the warrant of the Secretary of Labour, be taken into his custody and deported in the manner provided in Sections 19 and 20 of the Act of the 5th February, 1917,* entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States," if the Secretary of Labour, after hearing, finds that such aliens are undesirable residents of the United States, to wit:

(1.) All aliens who are now inte rned under Section 4067 of the Revised Statutes of the United States and the Proclamations issued by the President in pursuance of said section under date of the 6th April, 1917, the 16th November, 1917, the 11th December, 1917, and the 19th April, 1918, respectively.

(2.) All aliens who since the 1st August, 1914, have been or may hereafter be convicted of any violation or conspiracy to violate any of the following Acts or parts of Acts, the judgment on such conviction having become final, namely:

(a.) An Act entitled "An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes," approved the 15th June, 1917,† or the amendments thereof approved the 16th May, 1918;

(b.) An Act entitled "An Act to prohibit the manufacture, distribution, storage, use and possession in time of war of explosives, providing regulations for the safe manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession of the same, and for other purposes," approved the 6th October, 1917;

(c. An Act entitled An Act to prevent in time of war departure from and entry into the United States contrary to the public safety," approved the 22nd May, 1918;

Vol. CXI, page 880.

+ Vol. CXI, page 930.

(d.) An Act entitled "An Act to punish the wilful injury or destruction of war material or of war premises or utilities used in connection with war material, and for other purposes," approved the 20th April, 1918;

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(e.) An Act entitled An Act to authorise the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States," approved the 18th May, 1917, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto;

(f.) An Act entitled "An Act to punish persons who make threats against the President of the United States," approved the 14th February, 1917;

(g.) An Act entitled "An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes,' approved the 6th October, 1917, or any amendment thereof;

(h.) Section 6 of the Penal Code of the United States.

(3.) All aliens who have been or may hereafter be convicted of any offence against Section 13 of the said Penal Code committed during the period of the 1st August, 1914, to the 6th April, 1917, or of a conspiracy occurring within said period to commit an offence u nder said Section 13, or of any offence committed during said period against the Act entitled "An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies," approved the 2nd July, 1890, in aid of a belligerent in the European War.

SEC. 2. That in every case in which any such alien is ordered, expelled, or excluded from the United States under the provisions of this Act the decision of the Secretary of Labour shall be final.

3. That in addition to the aliens who are by law now excluded from admission into the United States all persons who shall be expelled under any of the provisions of this Act shall also be excluded from re-admission.

Approved, May 10, 1920.

ACT of the Congress of the United States of America to amend the Act entitled An Act to exclude and expel from the United States Aliens who are members of the Anarchistio and similar Classes," approved October 16, 1918.Approved, June 5, 1920.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that Section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to exclude and expel from the United States aliens who are members of the